diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d2175b0..ad4eb5e 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+!.travis.yml
 configure
 config.log
 config.cache
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ba90a46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+sudo: required
+language: c
+before_script:
+  - sudo apt-get --yes install xmlto python-docutils
+  - wget -O /tmp/alsa-lib.tar.gz https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/archive/master.tar.gz
+  - ls -la /tmp/alsa-lib.tar.gz
+  - tar -xvf /tmp/alsa-lib.tar.gz
+  - cd alsa-lib-master
+  - sed -e 's/-Wunused-const-variable=0//g' < gitcompile > gitcompile.travis
+  - bash gitcompile.travis
+  - sudo make install
+  - cd ..
+  - cp $(whereis gettextize | cut -d ' ' -f 2) gettextize1
+  - sed -e 's-read dummy < /dev/tty--g' < gettextize1 > gettextize
+  - chmod 755 gettextize
+  - sed -e 's-gettextize-./gettextize-g' < gitcompile > gitcompile.travis
+script:
+  - bash -x gitcompile.travis
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 36c712e..c37b8a5 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
 AM_MAINTAINER_MODE([enable])
 
 AM_GNU_GETTEXT([external])
-AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.15])
+AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19.8])
 
 dnl Checks for programs.